2/2 What If We Fuck It All Up?

FRIDGE  ART by Ahsoka :)

I’m loving the idea of Plo and Ahsoka adventures!

Well, ok - maybe this is not so much an adventure. I often wonder when was the first time Ahsoka saw Plo maskless? How did she react? This is the result.

P.S. - I am a card-carrying member of the “Plo Has Opposable Thumbs on His Feet” club. Out president is HellYeahPancakes. I will tag you!

(Hey Artists - Have you ever sat on a piece of Art so long you’ve lost all faith in it? Gone back to change stuff so much that the original presentation gets buried? I feel ya. 

This still has some stuff I want to change but it’s presentable. Hope you enjoy it.) 

i lied!!!! im drawing again :) and doing what we always do. turning people into weird babies :]

au where odo gets zapped with the baby laser basically <3 and the crew has to deal with him

There are only three episodes right now

And I already cried over two of them (and because of character whom I initially wasn't interested)

wtf Discovery

odo art for today

and heres just the lineart because i love nice crisp weighted lines.

rene had such a great way with body language which he leaned on during his performance as odo- i assume because his face was covered by a creepy skin-mask the whole time, limiting his facial expressions. very fun to see how he portrays this really gruff grumpy dude in his posture. he’s always skulking around with his head low and his nose high.

so i’ve finally got a good grasp on how to draw odo with stylistic flair. drawing goo is both meditatively fun and horribly tedious, 7/10.

i like his eyes. look at em. what a freak.

Returning Saru from Star Trek Timelines, 2022.

The man of your dreams, am I right

i’m feeling good about dragon diversity tonight!! dragons can just look like whatever and it’s all good. there are barely any design limits which i think is pretty neat :)

dragon:

also a perfectly acceptable dragon:

it’s great! 

(oh shit they’re in love!!)

Just watched the first episode and I simply can’t…

Saru and T’rina are just a treasure!

How soft and gentle his voice is and how she’s clearly struggling trying not to smile, while listening that absolutely beautiful love confession…

And how Saru almost laughing with happiness when she proposed

SHE PROPOSED

Unmute !

These clips are from the first six minutes of S2E12, 'The Alternate'. And I had to talk about the journey that Odo takes us on with his body language and mannerisms here.

Armchair body language analysis under the cut. Grab a snack; I am a person who is full of words.

In the beginning, Odo is rigid as usual, but he starts to change as soon as he walks into that bar. In that first moment of him looming over Quark, it's like he's eagerly anticipating the verbal spar he's about to engage in.

You quickly see him become more and more relaxed as he talks to Quark. He becomes increasingly animated, to the point of being downright playful. His tone rises and falls with his sarcasm, reaching almost cartoonish levels on occasion. There's a warmth to him even when he's expressing annoyance with Quark.

Eye contact with Quark is constant and intense. He's distinctly leaning towards Quark the whole time. He says more than he needs to, because he's having fun screwing with Quark, and it's overall just an adorable scene.

And then Dr. Mora shows up, rudely interrupting their psychosexual makeout sesh.

The change is instant. Odo's posture becomes incredibly tense and avoidant, leaning back slightly. The sassy head-swaggles are gone, replaced with frantic attempts to find anything to look at other than Dr. Mora. He seems to desperately hang on to every opportunity he has to look at Quark instead. (There's a joke somewhere here on tumblr about how Quark is Odo's 'emotional support criminal' - in this scene, he literally is!)

Odo speaks in strained, terse tones and stares downward in a heartbreakingly submissive manner as Mora treats him like a specimen instead of a person.

Odo physically drags Mora away, not wanting him to interact with Quark any more than necessary. He further reinforces this by telling Mora he doesn't want to know Quark.

I'm guessing he just doesn't want to explain the Thing he has going on with Quark. That would be difficult enough to explain even to the people who know Odo - he sure as hell doesn't want to try to explain it to the abuser who's just going to criticize and analyze it.

Then there's that beautiful little 'fuck you' affectation on the way he pulls that chair out for Mora... and then we have an absolutely withering murderglare in the shuttle.

I think this scene is amazing because it gives us a Quodo segment that is so long and playful that it borders on fanservice, then immediately follows it up with an encounter so uncomfortable that it makes us angry on Odo's behalf.

This shows us the stark difference between how Odo behaves around the person he's only pretending to hate... and how he behaves around the person he actually hates.

How much more relaxed would Odo have become if his playtime with Quark hadn't been interrupted? Dr. Mora cockblocked all of us when he showed up, and I will never forgive him for that.